Hvitsten
Hvitsten is a former town in Akershus county, Norway, located between Drøbak and Son. It is the smallest town that has ever existed in Norway: In 1951 it had 76 inhabitants, and an area of just 0.07 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Farm
- Description: settlement in Vestby municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Hvitsen” and “Hvitstein”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Vestby Station and Vestby Church.
Vestby Station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vestby Station is a railway station on the Østfold Line located in the village of Vestby, Norway. It is served by commuter trains operated by Vy running from Oslo to Moss. Vestby Station is situated 3½ km southeast of Hvitsten.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ås and Drøbak.
Ås
Photo: Hebue, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ås is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Follo traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ås.
Drøbak
Photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Drøbak is in the Frogn municipality, in the county of Akershus in Norway, at the shores of the Oslofjord, a few miles south-east of Oslo.
Hvitsten
- Categories: human settlement, urban area in Norway, ladested, locality, and agriculture
- Location: Vestby, Akershus, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.63057° or 59° 37′ 50″ northLongitude
10.71964° or 10° 43′ 11″ eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO HVTOpen location code
9FFGJPJ9+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 6454044917OpenStreetMap feature
place=farmGeoNames ID
3151289Wikidata ID
Q4586097
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hvitsten” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hvitsten”
- Danish: “Hvitsten”
- Dutch: “Hvitsten”
- French: “Hvitsten”
- German: “Hvitsten”
- Irish: “Hvitsten”
- Japanese: “ヴィトステーン”
- Japanese: “ヴィドステン”
- Javanese: “Hvitsten”
- Malay: “Hvitsten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvitsten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hvitsten”
- Norwegian: “Hvitsten”
- Romanian: “Hvitsten”
- Swedish: “Hvitsten”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hvitsten”. Photo: Colliekar, CC BY-SA 4.0.